I've spent yesterday and today updating everything on my system. It had been several months since I last updated, so it's taken a while but it's finally done!

emerge -uDp world reports nothing to install, and revdep-rebuild reports a clean system!

Amongst many other things, I've followed the guide for using KDE split packages, which seemed to go well (I only installed kdebase-meta). However, I still have some problems.

First, kdesktop crashes when trying to display JPG files. For example, if I right click on the desktop and select "Configure Desktop", then select a JPG image from the list available (or from a file), it crashes (the window disappears, the background goes black momentarily and it gets restarted). PNG files work fine.

JPG images work fine in Konqueror, and if I right click on one and select "Set As Background" --> "Centered", this also causes KDesktop to crash, and I get the "KDE Crash Handler" thingy. After this, I can't restart KDesktop until I edit ~/.kde3.5/share/config/kdesktoprc to remove reference to the JPG file that I tried to set as the background.